Canada comes to America, with snow and BCOLs! A BCOL D9 Leads an intermodal south under the Route. 34 Bridge on the Aurora/Naperville Border.

4649 heads a train near the town of Whistler.

An increasingly-rare BCOL cowl body Dash-8 leads K428 Charlotte ethanol empties through the Pikeville cut shortly after sunrise on a muggy summer morning.

BC RAIL COWL Returns!. Occasionally one of Canadian National's ex BCOL C40-8M s returns to home rails. Red-White-Blue BCOL4609 drops downgrade into Williams Lake, BC on point of train 570. ... (more)

BC RAIL 4609 looks rite at home crossing the Cheakamus River. The Red-White-Blue C40-8M was built in 1990 to battle the mountains and weather of British Columbia. The GE cowls became as synonym... (more)

BC Rail 4609 screams into the 10 degree curves on Pemberton Hill. The Red, White and Blue locomotive was built in 1990 to move heavy trains of mineral and forest products over the grades of the B... (more)

1996? nope, its 2019.... BCOL4609 leads train 570 southbound up Pemberton Hill at walking speed! I regretfully never made it to the BC Rail before the CN take over, but this summer I got a little... (more)

The daily BCR passenger service makes a stop at Lillooet.

BCOL4609 still sporting the full rock light package drifts downgrade on home rails into Williams Lake, British Columbia. My two day chase of train 570 on the former BC RAIL was one of the highlig... (more)

BC RAIL on home rails! BCOL4609 leads a southbound Train #570 into Williams Lake, British Columbia on a very stormy evening. The train will make a quick crew change upon arrival, and then make a ... (more)

CSX train X370 is seen rolling through a sweeping S-curve at BG109 in Ravenna, Ohio led by a very interesting pair of locomotives native to total opposite sides of North America. The lead unit, BC... (more)

BCOL C40-8M 4613 stands at Atlanta, Georgia along side C709's power on April 25, 2019 after leading M784, the Union City Turn. 4613 came south the day before trailing two CN SD70M-2s and trailed ... (more)

On the first day of March, a rare visitor makes an appearance to upstate NY. Built in 1993, BC Rail 4626, a GE C40-8M "Draper Taper" leads mixed train Q635 past the CP 382 interlocking.

A Rick Schonfelder original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

A massive BC Rail GF6C with a test train at Tumbler Ridge. The last electrified BC Rail train on the Tumbler Sub was 10/1/2000. The catenary was removed shortly thereafter, and the GF6Cs all scr... (more)